The Sun. — London, England, 1809-12-21 00:00:00

N AV AL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 19. —It has for theie last two days been currently reported, but to whiCh , no credit Was given, that his Majesty's ship Hussar, of 38 • r, guns, Capt. SKEENE, was lost o n the coast of ~iferns ey we a e happy however in being able to state that the above account is totally unfounded. The Hussar was 'spoken with last Thursday by a vessel arrived here from that Island. His Majesiy's ship Malta, of 84 guns, : it is . said , is to take out a Naval Commander to the East , lndie - s . i she . i 5 Undergoing a thorough repair, now bear?) , ready for her voyage. Capt. LocKYER, late of the Hound; is appointed to . the Sophie sloop of war at Chatham. Passed down Channel his Wjesty's ship Persian,. with a convoy, for,Oporto. Arrived his Majesty's ship La Rhin, Capt.'l\ifii= . cotat, and his Majesty's schOoner Whiting, Lieut. WILDEYs from Falmouth. Sauey his Majesty's brigs Crocus, Capt. BucK, for Faimonth ; Pickle, Lieut. CRANkr-Fottb, and Con- BuLL,on a cruize. Came down the harbour, and anchored in the 'Sound, nia Majeuy'S ship Tonnant, of 80 guns. ' • Sailed his Majesty's shipt.Piaorious, Capt. TAL- ZoT, and Repulse, Capt. HALLIDA:i, to join Lord CULuisGwo , D off Toulon his Majesty's ship Ama pa, Capt. PilatKEß, to the Westward; and the Orestes sloop of, war on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 20. His Majesty's ship dipollo, of, 38 guns, Captain TAYI,ott, was; this day, released from quarantine. • • Came into the harbour, the Goshawk brig; of 18 gtins, Capt. LILBURN, trom Spithead. Arrived the Hopewell, from Penzance: Sailed . .this day ,his Majesty's. ship 6anyniede; Capt. CATHCART; for Livi,Grn. Arrived the Woodliatd Castle, from Oporto. POETRY. IMPROMPTU, On the intehded New Bridge over the River Trent, a Gun thorpe, Notts. Some crafty contrivers, with deep penetration, Conceiving a plan for the " good of the nation," And hoping to profit full " per cent." - Determin'd to build a bridge over the Trent. The plan thus adopted, the projet far-fam'd, And , all werr amaz'd what this bridge would be naT'd, When at lingth 'twas resolv'd by some wags, in derision, To christen and. hail it Euclid's Filth Preposition!'' *By Mathematicians called, The Asses' ,Bridge," CEiIM.-By judicious compression and transpo sition, the new Comedy of Sudden .Arrivals was ren dered much more entertaining last night. The Per formers exerted the with great zeal, and the Play was so well received as to promise a successful career. ' THE ThiATitss.—The Tragedy of Hamlet was I repeated last night' at.Covent-Garden Theatre before 'a very numerous audience, and we have the pleasure. to intbrm our Readers that gotld order and tranqui lity seem .to be effectually restored between the Proprietors and •the Public. It must; however, .be expected, that when any passage in the dramatic re presentation occurs that may bear a reference to past events, some wags will occasionally take hold of it : accordingly, last night, when one grave-digger isks the other, " Who • builds stronger than the mtton . , bricklayer, or carpenter ?" a ,humourist in front. exclaimed, " The maker of private hones." Such temporary efftisions are marks of our national.tha7 ratter, and - should alwayi be received with the same gOOd htimour as produees them. Though KEMBLR was somewhat indisposed, he gave a fine portrait of of the character which StiARIESPEAEE has so admir— ably designed, and throughout received the stamp of critical as well as general approbhtion.—As EMERY I had yesterday the Misfortune of hising his eldest ion;- the part of chief GraVe-digger was performed by BLANCHABEi. . , .. The birth-day of the daughter of Louts. XVI. Duchess D'ANGOULEME, who entered her 32d y-ar, was celebrated on Tuesday, by the Comte and CAiattesse de LILLE, at lihrtxt ell Froti4e. MON SIEUR, and all the rest of the Member?, of the Hou; L : Of BOUIiBON, trigether with the Duc SERRENT, DEAL, DEC. , t u.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Van - ' and all the other French Nobility "now in England, guard an,d Impetuei4s,-the former to Plymouth, and i . paid their respects' upon the occasion. the latter to PortSmouth. t We cannot omit observing with what avidity the , os s o )eii . i n ebdLatou, to every Arrived the Garthier Cutter from Flushing, Which' C r l'l', er fGo ' me t ' • - impute i . ~., —L.' AtiiStorturie that befais I he,Spatriai . th. to some neg Lat place she left the 15th inst. and brings an account on the part of the British Minlstr) They would' .. that our . shipping hare not suffered so muci, by the : hold out to the world th,it..: in) Clad.. of inen w-e ready late bad Weather as was 'supposed. to start up in - Spain, but . that 'C - t at - no, a , ins to put into their hands ; qtl;:i ' The quiward-boiind still remain. . on the Ministers of tbjs co ..I!itry, i •• FIVE O'CLOCK.—Sailed ' - soMe' of the, outward- have neglected to send an sclegn essential bound, . hut it is feared they must bear up again, as articles. We lin% e - a;t..t , we repeat it now, wit liout.;o4l ; the wind is not better than west. . , arms for at least 209,00 m - ei , ,gin sent to • . t Spain from this country, wiihroUt inciuding in this S HEERNES S, DEC. 20.—Sailed his Majesty's s'llip . . amount the arms supplied to Tortuga. -, Mercurius, with the trade for. Heligoland. i The Sydney Gni-Ales to the 2.7 th of March last) I received Yesterday, contain' a ProclannotiOn iss u ed by the Lieut;-Governor PATERSON, prohibiting all correspondence and communication With the late Governor BLIGH, or any of his family, friends; or __ z LARDIOUTII, DEC. 20.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Bellerophon, Saturn, and Edgar, for the Downs ; and the Zenobia sloop of war, with the loss of her bowsprit and foremast arrived a ship with the horses ..from. Walcheren, and about 40 or 50. men.. • Tolois', DEC. lg.—Sailed the Persian frigate, with a fleetOf 'transports for Gibraltar. • , GREENOCK, DEC. 18.—The Argus, Foaltna, from Le' Have, in Nova Scot►a, arrived at the Tail of the Bank on Saturday morning.last, after a passage of 32 days, during a great part of which she experienced very heavy gales of wind.—Reports that the brig Mary, of and from Leith to Halifax, was towed into the latter port by a frigate, with the' loss of both masts, and otherwise materially da maged.—Spoke only a schooner off the Banks of Newfoundland, out seven weeks from Liverpool, bound for Newfoundland. The following is .an . Extract of a Letter received -1' from a young Officer, .whO suffered shipwreck in the Harlequin hired armed ship, on-Thursday, the 7th ult. off Seaford, addressed to his parents at Ply, i m outh : 1 ~ g No doubt you , have before this time heard of our misfortune, and wondered ,at not hearing from me . We were all in a wretched condition, and shotrid have been much worse, had it not been y for the activity and generosity of the Officers of • the 81st regiment, .whose conduct I shall always remember with gratitude. We sailed, as you know, from Plymouth Sound, on Ttiesday after noon, with a fair wind, having a convoy of - 27 sail under our care. We continued with a fair wind all the way, Lot having more of it than we could Wish for. " I have seen the papers , which give a very in.. • correct statement of the melancholy. affair:'..- We. struck about four o'clock on Thursday morning, when most of us Were in our hammocks ; but we were very soon upon deck, and, cut away the masts, - thinking we might get oft ; but the tide sowing in, our efforts for chat purpose were -unavailing. Little did. we think at the time that we were so near the shore ; all of us thought we had struck on a rock, 4.. - we. -iwincciiately fired our, guts and , burnt blue lights - till all were expended ; y& the con voy still continued to follow us, and six of them struck ; the rest hauled their wind and got safe off; those on shore soon went to pieces. Our's being the first vessel that struck, and nearest the shore, we' lost only two lives ; but many poor, souls belong ing to the other vessels perished, an - winning in the whole to forty. Such a wreck is scarcelylpthe remembered : I was wished' off three times4-ippce with a child in my arms, which a Lieutenant had on board . with its mother; both of I.Vhbm ultimately succeeded in. getting safe to the shore, though with 'much • difficulty, as we were the lust on the wreck." pis doh v citKge iol;inuAte, ";iie e ~.t y c :t..-:-Etatcl.,.ttiicl contradiion, have be associates The alterations which Government are now mak ing in the bat-lacks at Ashford, are expected to prove very conducive to the health and comfort , of the soldiery. The plan of the barracks in their old state must be allowed to have had an opposite tendency, on account of the great numbers apportioned to each room, which, though only four in number, had yet accommodations for 2000 men. By the alterations now in progress, it is intended,' by partition walls onite through the building, to makesdifferent sized rooms to contain from 24 to 48 men, with fire-, places in each, with a gallery extending 'along the front, for a communication to' each room on the up per story. The Whole to be completed by - January, and the barracks will then contain 1500 men. The annual allowande for clothing to the Volun teer Corps and Troops of Cavalry, will, in fUture, be reduced to the sum of 11, per man. Monday night, a Frenchman was dete&ed at Driver in getting into,a boat, and endeavouring 'to escape; but being fired at by the sentry on, guard, he ran the boat on shore, and endeavoured ,to make his escape, but was taken by the picket. He proves to be the Lieutenant of a privateer, and . has been in England five or six years, and made his escape frail Plymouth. He was taken to the guard house. A shocking murder was committed on the servant of Mr. J urcle, a farmer, at York Farm, near Dor chester, on Saturday night last. Mr. Jorde's house was attacked .by thieves, and, on a Newfoundland dog barking, Mary Thomas, the servant, who, was washing, it being twelve o'clock at night, went to the via-house door, which had been broken open. She was attacked by two men disguised. who Jan . - I-led her off the premises, and she was found dead the next morriing in an adjoining field, with her head beat to a mummy. One of the supposed mur -derers has been taken into custody. RlOT.—Another very serious affray took place be tween two parties of Irishmen on Tuesday, in the Hampstead Road, arising, in some measure out of that in St. Giles's, on Sunday. Three men were taken away apparently lifeless, and another had his bead fra&ured, and is'not expeaed to recover.--, There were above eighty persons engaged, half that number having sallied forth from Bloomsbury, to attack others who were at work in the neighbour hood of 'Camden Town, but the latter party obtained the viaory. A shocking accident happened in Duke-street, Ox ford-street, on Monday evening, to the child of Mrs. Fa-well. She had gone down from her apartments in the absence of her servant to answer a knock at the door, leaving hey only Child, a fine boy, about three years old, in the rooms. On her returning again she was alarmed by her son's shrieks, and found the child so much burnt, that he -expired soon . after wards. He had taken a newspaper off the table and lighted it by the fire; which was the causa • of the catastrophe.- THE PERSIAN AMBASSADOR. The public' curiosity, yesterday, was so great to e. i s his Excellency on his way to and fi om the Queen's House, that hundreds of persons Were as sembled in Mansfield-street at an early hour, : in, the Park,. there, were many thousands ; all the :tie nues to St. James's Palace were likewise Ciowded, and fashionable vehicles of every description vi•ere drawn up in' line (frofn Piccadilly even. unto the southern 'extremity of the. Stable-yard) about noon. The Ambassador left his own house about one o'clock, in One of the King's State carriages; it was idrawn by"six hCrses, led b) two postillions dressed in ,the Royal liveries, with three footmen behind. He was accompanied by his interpreter, Sir Gore Ousley. On his Excellency's stepping into his car riage,. the assembled multitude 'pulled off their hats, and gave him 'three cheers; with this demonstration of 'popular approbation, he appeared much pleased. The King's coach was followed by two others.— The procession moved down New Bond-street ; the windows of the houses in the principal story were all throWn open, and crowded with elegantly dressed and :beautiful females. On passing through the Park, the same manifestations of public respe6t and joy were still more widely difftised, and on his ar rival at the Queen's House, the utmost attention to etiquette was observed. About half-past two . o'clock•the ceremonies.cf introdu6tion were ended ; his Excellency then returned in the same order in 'which he went. Qn his return he bowed to the young Princess of Wales, who was seated in her landau, leaning forward out of the window at the side of the Lodge-gate, opposite to the Stable-yard in the Park. On his Excellency's return to Mansfield-street, he invited Sir Qore Ousley and Mr. Morier to partake of an entertainment, called in , the Persian language a Pillau it was composed of rice and fowls stewed .together with spices; the dish was prepared in the same way as marinaded chickens. This Noble Personage is extremely abstemious in his diet; his only beverage is Orgeat, and occasionally a glass of . wine. His Excellency has'exgre'ssed an earnest desire to, be introduced into the circles of polished life as early as is possible.. We are assured that his Excier lency possesses .a 'fund of _learning, and a refined taste; his wit is proverbial at the,Court of Persia. It is Ole King, his Master,, who claims the honour of ioving haSseven sons all born to him; to one day ; hi, Majesty's Representative at pur Court. has had only four children c,,nferred upon him within the same spaceof time. OTHER PARTICULARS: His;, Excellency received particular instrn6tions from his Gann not to go spur, after his arrival in the Metropolis of England, until he was presented.in y torn) tuAtie King 14, • real. Britain. About one o'clocl bis Majesty's carriage, and six beautiful bay horse k, with the servants in their new State liveries, and in every respe&' dressed as if to attend his - Majesty in State, except having bats on instead of caps, two.new carriages of his-Excellency's, built by Bushilet, together with Sir Stephen Cottrell 's carriage, the Master of the Ceremonies - arrived in Mansfield-street. ' -... ~ . - The liveries of his Excellency are scarlet, nearly the same asilic Prince of Wales's frocks, except the buttons, which are plain ; the waistcoat and breeches are 0 ee:.., instead of blue, and are bound, with gold lace. In a • shott time'after, his Excellency came out of the house', carrying his credentials in his hand, in an elegant gold casket; upon a , salver, covered with crimson velvet. His Excellency appeared highly pleased with the' grand appearance of his Majesty's carriage, and superb liveries; also 'with the reception of a generous English Public, who took off their hats, and gave him three cheers. A. 'party of Bow-street patrole attended to keep order. Mr. Chester, the Deputy Master of the Cererno nies,, Sir Stephen Cottrell, the lVrasler of the Cere monies, being indisposed, followed his Excellency intq the coach, and took his seat on the left of his Excellency. Sir Gore Ousley, who - is appointed his: Excellency's Interpreter, took his seat with hiS back to the horses. His Excellency's' carriage followed, . with Mr. Wrier, who went frOm England with Sir Harford Jones, upon his mission to Persia, as an Interpreter, and returned with his Excellency to this,country in the same capacity, and other attendants, In the third carriage were two Pages, his Excellency's, Priest, and Mr., Dorant, the Interpreter to-the' at tendants and household; • those who were not of this country were dressed in new Eastern dresses. — The streets were, crowded to excess which they, passed through, and the Park, was so extremely thronged, that it was with. gleat difficulty the car riages could. pass. ' , . It being the determination of Government to sho.o his Excellency every mark of respect and dis tintliou; his ' Excellency was allowed to enter the Queen's Palace by the great door in front, where no other person is allowed to enter, but those of the Royal Family—all others go in by the Lodge. His Excellency 'entered about a quarter • before twp o'ctock. He vvas accompanied to thd 'State apart ments by Mi. Chester,. Sir'Gore Ousley, and 'Mr. Mbrier ; - the other attendants remained in the Great Hall. • • ' . . . . THE ARTS.--SHE has made considerable ad vaticeOit three portraits, which will do,hcinonr to the approaching Exhibition, and'illicrease his high reptttation as an Anist. first is a fine, whole length of Sir'EvitE Cooie, , .vho IS represented ,on the 'field of'hattle; but with simplicity - of expression worthy of a - 'veteran soldier. Another portrait from, th 'penal of this ingenious Artist is a representation of Lord LITTI:ETON in ; his parliamentary rol;es.— There;is. great dignity in this work; and the lan*. scope .which appears thronth th. 3 Window of the study is a .delicious.morceciu. The third portrait is a very' fine picture of MI.SOWERBY., a gentleman well known in the corriniercial world. The head,' in particular, of this portrait, is admirable in colour ing, drawing, and prominent effect. All these works are highly honourable to the English,'Seliool. We . ought not to conclude without expressing our star-, priid that an Artist'who has shewn himself much sOperiOt to most contempo!ary poets, and . who, in his province; rivals any crl bis,predecessors, should he alsb so adroit with his pencil as to produce such ex cellent woks those which we have abOye tined. "'. FOREIGN 11V7'ELLIGEIVCE. BANKS. OF .THE MAIN, Nov. 18.—" Now we have conquered . the Danube, whither shall We march next ?" said a Saxon, at Vienna. "To Greece:" replied ,a brave fellow, belonging to the Im perial Guards. More than 300 pieces of cannon,. with a great quantity of military stores, taken by the French lrom the Prussians, were lately sent off iron) flint zic. Up , varcls nf . 300 guns still remained for the defence of (broil'''. CASSEL, Nov. tg —According to the renort,-of certain travellers from Vienna, who pretend to have there got some. insight into futurity, grew and itn! , .. portant political changes on the Continent of Europe, are on the, tapiS, 'and may be expe6ted to be speedily announced froth Paris. Sets are even laid that these , changes will be followed by a Peace with England. WismAß, Nov. 22.—A few weeks since, a ves sel, principally laden with Colonial jiroduce, enter ed this . port With a Danish clearance. On further investigation,: however, her papers have been fund to have been fabricated in England. The cargo hls therefore been confiscated, and the bond of 60t0 dollars, signvd by the consignees, has been declared to be forfeited. This. discovery has led to the issuing of a new - cabinet-order, on the part of the Duke of Mecklenburgh, for rigorously, enforcing the French Imperial Decrees relative to commerce. HAtsdauaoli, - Ds°. 6.—His Majesty the t mpe- Tor, on the 17th of November, priblished a aeciee; from his Palace of Fontainblean, of which the follow ing are the contents :!---- , , L " The introduetion into France of Colonial -Pro -1 dtice, which is obtained frona the prizes taken by ' the French privateers, the Tilsit,..l he Dunk irlwois, the Diable-a-quatre, and the Prosper, of Calais, through Holland, will be allowed, as a particular exception, under the following conditions— "' Our-Consuls are themselves to take cognizance of the 'process which has red to the declaratiOn of 1 confiscation, and shall not decide resiecting the cer -1 tificate of origin, until they have ascertained that the I produce do4s, in fad, proceed from the above-rrien- I firmed prizes; ot . Which they must give in the name, i c and date of tne condernnation. ' , I. -". They ,shall, moreover, state particularly the place to which the same are br ught after their are ! i rival;. and also verify t6ir"tialug and quantity." According to a new regulation of the Government of Holland, no inland passes are granted to E,ist . 'Friesland, for the •ti'ansport- of coioniA produce, which has stopped the arrivals from that -neighbour hood, This has occasioned a rise in the markets. HAmßuudn, DEC. B.—Upon the old line of Don aniers„ tom the right bank of the !thine to•the Eibe, the regulations against a contraband trade, and the intruduction of colonial produce, have been increas ed in their security. It is stated from Zdepp ,, n, that the warehouses of the Merchants have been put un der seals, in order to ascertain what quantity of goods were in the same when the line ofDottat?i. established,. and how much is a► present in them..-. The neighbouring• Governments and the 2ihies France, under the conviction of the imPort,mCe of destroying the English trade on the Continent, pro mote, as much as possible, the measures for: its' sup pression, and omit no opportunity of declaring' their determination to do so. - • COPENHAGEN, DEC. e.—The onantity/' of goods which have lattly been brought into certain har bours of the Dukedom, in American ship, and there colle&ed together, has enabled our Guvcrnment, to prevent any contraband trade, to adopt' regulations which ,the :State Gazette,of this day announces in the , following ,terms:— " Although his Majesty the King does not doubt that the prohibition long since published against the introdudiori of all English goods, and the inspectidn ordered for this object, 'of all ,goods upon arrival, have been obeyed in themost strict manner, yet his Highness, for greater certainty, has, under date of the 25th of Nov. of this year, seen good plaet• Certain..Cortunissaries in the cities of Tonningen, Husum, Gluckstadt, and Altana, to inspect the goods which may be there lying, suspedteci to, be of English origin, and accordingly most graciously ap points as Commissaries for the city at Tonningen, the Counsellor and Governoi of District, loansen the Knight. Von Danebrag ; the Judge Fraticke and Major' Von Brandortf, of the Artillery.—For the town of Husum, Chamberlain and Jwaice Lewet zoW ; Chief Justice VOn Agers, and iheßiron Von Holstein, Captain of Matine.—Fot the city :of Gluckstadt, the Chamberlain and Justice, Von Asiviefeldc; the Baron Von Dehn ; the Grand Cross, Von Dannebrog; the Judge, Matesen; and the Captain of Marine', Mossin.—Fur the' town of Altona, the Honourable Commissioners appointed for the distribution of Certificates for the exportation of neutral goods."' COPENHAGEN, Nov: 25..--Although the season ilk so far advanCed, a small convoy of 33 ships, tinder the . prQte,:cion of a frivate, a brig, and a small armed vesiel, passed through the Belt to the Southward on the 2 I st instant. • One of ourprivateers, that in the neighbourhood of Archangel, captured ten 'English ships, five of which are still in our posession, has been taken into Scbtlat:d. Fonr Danish` transports hlve arrived froni - Scotla ,, d, winch were taken rich: :r oft their voyage to Norway or on their return home, repre sent the situation of the Danish prisoners in Leith, who amount, to about 600, to..be most deplorable., they are kept, in close confinement , they cannot seek for employment out of doOr, 'and receive very bad pro,isions. It seems that they try by these means : to force them into the English. ser 4 vice; but their efforts have been completely unsuc cesstul. ASCILAFFENBURG, DEc. I.—His Highness the Prince, Frit - owe teas received, by a courier, an invi tation to Paris, and' has already arrived at Regens- Dag, from whence he took his departure on the 25th ultimo. From these circums►ances it is in terred, that mailers of the greatest importance re specting. the Confederation of the Rhine are in agita 7 iion at Paris. RIGA, Nov. 25.—Tlie frost. continues 'very sevre, and it is feared that all the shill which are frozen in, will be unable to put to sea bore the spTing.